The Environmental Protection Agency sent a report to the White House on Friday that warns that global warming is impacting the health of Americans. In response, they propose an extension of the Clean Air Act that would consider carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases as pollutants to be regulated. This would pave the way for the carbon cap and trade mechanism that’s forthcoming from congress, and it reverses one of the Bush administration’s landmark environmental decisions when then-EPA administrator Stephen Johnson rejected his scientific and technical staff’s recommendation.

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